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+ TeXsis version 2.18
+ 6 April 2001
+
+
+ GENERAL INFORMATION
+
+ TeXsis is a Plain TeX macro package for typesetting physics
+documents, including papers and preprints, conference proceedings,
+books, theses, referee reports, letters, and memos. Texsis macros
+provide the following features:
+
+ * Automatic numbering of and symbolic reference to equations,
+ figures, tables, and references;
+
+ * Simpified control of type sizes, line spacing, footnotes, running
+ headlines and footlines;
+
+ * Specialized document formats for research papers, preprints and
+ "e-prints," conference proceedings, theses, books, referee
+ reports, letters, and memoranda;
+
+ * Table(s) of contents and lists of figures and tables, as well as
+ list of figure and table captions;
+
+ * Specialized environments for lists, theorems and proofs, centered
+ or non-justified text, and listing computer code;
+
+ * Specialized macros for easily constructing ruled tables;
+
+ * Simplified means of constructing an index for a book or thesis;
+
+ * Easy to use double column formatting.
+
+TeXsis was originally designed for use by physicists, but others may
+also find it useful. It is completely compatible with Plain TeX.
+
+ You can find out more about TeXsis from the TeXsis Home Page, at
+http://www.texsis.org
+
+
+ SOURCE CODE
+
+ Source code and documentation for TeXsis can be obtained from
+ftp://ftp.texsis.org/texsis and is also mirrored by CTAN, the
+Common TeX Archive Network, in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/texsis/ .
+Finger ctan@ftp.tex.ac.uk to find the nearest CTAN server.
+
+ Small improvements and corrections to TeXsis are distributed as
+patches in the patch file TXSpatch.tex. If there is such a file in the
+texsis directory you should copy it as well.
+
+
+ INDEPENDENT MACRO PACKAGES
+
+ Several components of TeXsis can be used independently under Plain
+TeX:
+
+ * index: index.tex contains Plain TeX macros for constructing an
+ index for a document, in conjunction with the MakeIndex program.
+
+ * tables: ruled.tex (with TXSruled.tex) contain Plain TeX macros
+ for making nice ruled tables.
+
+ * dcol: TXSdcol.tex contains Plain TeX macros for double column
+ formatting.
+
+For details on how to use these see the documentation files that
+accompany them on the TeXsis ftp site (each has a separate directory).
+The comments in the files are also very complete.
+
+
+ INSTALLATION
+
+ TeX runs on many different platforms, not just Unix, and TeXsis
+will run on any installation of TeX. It is best to perform a system-
+wide installation of TeXsis so that everybody may use it, but it is
+also possible to install it in a private directory for personal use.
+Since TeXsis is a "format" the steps required to install it are the
+same as the steps required to install any TeX "format", probably using
+the `initex` program. It would be best if you would review the
+documentation on how to do this for your own TeX installation.
+
+ Very complete installation instructions for Unix, VMS, and PC-TeX
+are given in an appendix to the TeXsis manual. You can print these
+without having to have TeXsis installed by running the file
+Install.tex through Plain TeX.
+
+ That said, installation on Unix computers is rather simple. Unless
+you have an unusual installation of TeX (in which case please read the
+output from Install.tex) the steps are:
+
+ 1. Edit the Makefile and change parameters and paths as
+ appropriate, following the directions given in the comments.
+ The defaults are set to work with teTeX, a common distribution
+ of TeX for Unix. You will probably only have to set the paths
+ to your top-level "texmf" directory and your local "bin" directory.
+
+ 2. (Optional) Copy the file TXSsite.000 to TXSsite.tex and edit
+ this file to contain appropriate site dependent information,
+ such as definitions for the name of your \ORGANIZATION, or your
+ \letterhead, or change \LandscapeSpecial, etc... If you already
+ have a TXSsite.tex file then copy it to the current directory so
+ that it will be included when building the format file.
+
+ 3. Give the command `make` to build the format file and the manual.
+
+ 4. Give the command `make install' to install the files in the
+ appropriate directories.
+
+
+ MTEXSIS
+
+ To make it easier for the casual reader of electronic preprints
+("e-prints") to print a TeXsis document we have collected the core
+TeXsis macros into one source file (called mtexsis.tex), with all the
+comments and blank lines removed. A reader who does not have TeXsis
+on her/his system can then simply get this file, add
+
+ \input mtexsis
+
+to the manuscript file, and print the paper with Plain TeX. You can
+make your e-print manuscript files automatically load mtexsis.tex, if
+it is needed, by adding the following line at the begining of your
+manuscript file:
+
+ \ifx\TeXsis\undefined\input mtexsis.tex\fi
+
+It is suggested that you try running such a manuscript through Plain TeX
+with mtexsis.tex first to make sure that it works.
+
+
+ MAILING LIST
+
+ If you find TeXsis useful you may want to send a short e-mail
+message to texsis@texsis.org to be put on the mailing list for any
+notices of updates or changes. We will only use this list to inform
+you of updates or changes, and we won't give the list out to anybody
+else (we hate spam too).
+
+
+ AUTHORS
+
+ Eric Myers <myers@umich.edu> Frank E. Paige <paige@bnl.gov>
+ Department of Physics and Physics Department
+ University of Michigan Brookhaven National Laboratory
+ Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109 USA Upton, New York 11973 USA
+
+
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+@(#) $Id: README,v 18.3 2001/04/06 23:12:48 myers Exp $